Welcome to the online home of Audra Jennings, a book publicist and crafter. Here I share about both. I hope you'll find books you'll want to read and crafts you will want to order. I live a rather boring, single life. At times I would like to think I am humorous. The kids I teach in Bible class tend to think so. I also blog about current seasons of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette. I don't know why, I just do.

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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Nothing says love like a dead animal

I commented last night on Facebook that I had forgot about watching Cajun Pawn Stars. On that show, a person can pawn a donkey. Last week, someone sold their goat to to the store, and someone else tried to sell their alien in a jar.

Obviously, anything goes.

After referring to this, one Facebook stalkers, I mean, one of my friends shared a story with me. I love Christine - we mutually stalk each other on Facebook.

She gave me permission to share her story here. I must say, after reading her stories, I don't think of my own gift stories sound so bad.

And, I'm pretty sure you can find these items at Silver Dollar Pawn Shop in Louisiana.

For my birthday, I got a cross from my mom. I opened my
presents with my parents over the phone, so I said, “Wow. This is interesting.
What type of wood is this made of?”

It looked like little roundish pieces of wood glued end to
end.

My mom said, “Look for the little card.”

So I pull out the little card and begin to read. It turns out
that the cross is not made of wood. It’s made from the scales of a 200-lb fish
that lives in the bayou by a Cajun craftsman.

There’s a craft item in there. It’s on the shape of a
magnolia flower, and whatever it’s made of us painted. I’m looking at it, remembering the box, and
thinking that it doesn’t look like it’s made out of pecans. What is it?

So I asked my mom when I called her that morning. She said it
didn’t come from the Pecan House, that was just the box. She said it was made
by the same folks who made the cross. It was made out of “alligator buttons”
which is the scaly things on their back.

Dead animal present #2. I’m beginning to think it was a bad
idea for my parents to move to Mississippi....

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About Me

Audra is a publicist who promotes books and writes about other people for a living. She's also a hermit who spends way too much time within the walls of her home since her office is just upstairs.

When she's not trying to get you to read a variety of books, she's probably watching too much reality TV or annoying her Facebook friends with pictures of crochet and other craft projects.

You can find Audra on her blog, posting rants about something (it's not her neighbors anymore) and other meaningless nonsense (www.audrajennings.com), or on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram where she never fails to make snarky remark.

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I am employed both a freelance publicist and a publicist for a publisher and do post press releases, interviews and blog tours for the books and/or products I represent. However, I post on my blog by choice.

When I do post reviews for books that I have been sent review copies of by publishers, I will note that on posts.

On occasion, I also buy books and read and review them for enjoyment too.